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title: Buh Wolf mek jection gainst Buh Rabbit gwine, but wen Buh Rabbit tel… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Buh Wolf mek jection gainst Buh Rabbit gwine, but wen Buh Rabbit tell um de chile gwine loss ef eh no git bactize, Buh Wolf lem go. Who acts: wen. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 140

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Buh Wolf mek jection gainst Buh Rabbit gwine, but wen Buh Rabbit tell um de chile gwine loss ef eh no git bactize, Buh Wolf lem go.

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**Who acts:** wen · **What happens:** tell, go · **To what, where:** Buh jection gainst · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:5:140
# text = Buh Wolf mek jection gainst Buh Rabbit gwine, but wen Buh Rabbit tell um de chile gwine loss ef eh no git bactize, Buh Wolf lem go.
1	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	mek	MEK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	jection	jection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gainst	gainst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	chile	chile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	gwine	gwine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	ef	ef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
21	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
23	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bactize	bactize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	lem	lem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | wen |  |  |  |  | chile loss ef and no git bactize and Wolf lem *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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